My Children

The good thing about kids is that it takes very little to amuse them.  Take this morning, for example.  I had to clean the church this morning because my cousin is having her little boy baptized tonight, followed by supper in the fellowship hall.  Matt had to leave early this morning to try and catch a bull that needs to come home and recuperate (although I don't feel comfortable explaining the whole thing...it's his male regions...enough said!), so he wasn't able to stay home and let me go in early to clean.

The children and I slept in...it goes against what I said I was going to work on the other day...but I'm a procrastinator.  Hopefully tomorrow!

We bathed...we got home late from softball last night and the kids were totally out, so I gave them a bath this morning, instead.

I made them breakfast and wrapped it up so they could eat it on the way to town.  Oh, and I stopped by to see Nikki's bedroom...she had new carpet installed yesterday and set up the new log bed she made in it.  It's beautiful all put together.  The Huge King size Log bed, the smoky bluish-gray walls and the new tan carpet...it's like a whole new house.

At church, while I quickly vacuumed the sanctuary and fellowship hall (I vacuum quickly when I have the kids because I don't know how long I have until Clarence decides he's going to escape and run out to the car or something), the kids played so well!  Clarence had packed some of his animals: a bull, a lamb, a baby zebra, some baby cows (they're cows, just smaller than the rest of his animals, so they're baby cows...last night at softball, Gma Muriel held one up and said, "Is this a baby calf?" Clarence quickly replied, "No, it's a baby cow." He knows the difference!) and Easter eggs in his backpack and they started out playing with them.  Soon, he had cleaned all of that up and they were going in and out of the elevator...it's a simpler elevator, not the kind with the fast-closing doors that might hurt/squeeze my children.  It has a normal door on it, and they went in and out, in and out, in and out, in and out, in and out, (you get the picture).....

After that, they moved on to pushing a little wooden table all over the fellowship hall...Clarence pushed and Adina pulled...through rooms and doors, this occupied their little bodies for about 15 minutes! After that, I was almost finished, but they had found the wheelchair.  I set Adina in there, and Clarence slowly and carefully (seriously) pushed her around.  They both loved it! Before we left, I gave them a ride together...Clarence was thrilled!

I love that they are so easily amused by what they find to do...from playing in an elevator to pushing a wheelchair...as long as they're not hurting anything, I'd way rather have them play well together and entertain themselves than have to bring tons of toys and movies along to keep them occupied.